Maliki's Iraq: Rape, executions and torture |
Iraq is wracked by detentions, torture, and executions, and fingers are pointing at Prime Minister Maliki.
Dahr Jamail Last Modified: 19 Mar 2013 14:41
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Untold numbers of Iraqis have been detained by the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, which is also accused by human rights organisations of ongoing torture [GALLO/GETTY]
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| Baghdad - Heba al-Shamary (name changed for security reasons) was released last week from an Iraqi prison where she spent the last four years. "I was tortured and raped repeatedly by the Iraqi security forces," she told Al Jazeera. "I want to tell the world what I and other Iraqi women in prison have had to go through these last years. It has been a hell." Heba was charged with terrorism, a fate faced by many Iraqis who are detained by security forces. "I now want to explain to people what is occurring in the prisons that [Prime Minister Nouri al-] Maliki and his gangs are running," Heba added. "I was raped over and over again, I was kicked and beaten and insulted and spit upon." Heba's story, horrific as it is, unfortunately is but one example of what a recent report from Amnesty International refers to as "a grim cycle of human rights abuses" in Iraq today. The report, "Iraq: Still paying a high price after a decade of abuses", exposes a long chronology of torture and other ill-treatment of detainees committed by Iraqi security forces, as well as by foreign troops, in the wake of the US-led 2003 invasion. One Iraqi woman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said her nephew was first detained when he was just 18. Held under the infamous Article Four which gives the government the ability to arrest anyone "suspected" of terrorism, he was charged with terrorism. She told, in detail, of how her nephew was treated: "They beat him with metal pipes, used harsh curse words and swore against his sect and his Allah (because he is Sunni) and why God was not helping him, and that they would bring up the prisoners' mothers and sisters to rape them," she explained to Al Jazeera. "Then they used electricity to burn different places of his body. They took all his cloths off in winter and left them naked out in the yard to freeze." Her nephew, who was released after four years imprisonment after the Iraqi appeals court deemed him innocent, was then arrested 10 days after his release, again under Article 4. This law gives the government of Prime Minister Maliki broad license to detain Iraqis. Article four and other laws provide the government the ability to impose the death penalty for nearly 50 crimes, including terrorism, kidnapping, and murder, but also for offenses such as damage to public property. While her nephew was free, he informed his aunt of how he and other detainees were tortured. |
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Human Rights Iraq - ( Woman in prison tells story of being raped over and over -punishment )
Saturday, March 23, 2013
CAIRO ( Egyptians drag Muslim brotherhood supporter through street )
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's political groups blamed one another on Saturday for one of the year's worst bouts of violence between supporters and opponents of the president's Muslim Brotherhood group.
The powerful Brotherhood said it holds the opposition partly responsible for giving "political cover" to "thugs" who attacked and beat hundreds of the group's members outside its Cairo headquarters.
Opposition groups said President Mohammed Morsi is to blame. They accuse Morsi of polarizing the country and of failing to provide stability nine months after being elected in the country's first free presidential race.
Egypt is reeling from a number of crises, including a diesel shortage that has crippled life for millions, an economic downturn, widespread poverty and a lack of security. The interior ministry, which oversees police, has lost much of its powers since the uprising and many policemen are striking for better pay and protesting what they say is the politicization of the force under Morsi.
Leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei wrote on Twitter that the violence is due to the regime's failure to address root causes of anger.
Protesters vented their frustrations Friday at the doorstep of the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails. He is a member of the group's political party. Since the fall of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak in early 2011, the Brotherhood has emerged as the most organized political group, winning all elections at the ballot box.
The violence outside of the Brotherhood's headquarters in the sprawling Cairo neighborhood of Muqattam led to around 175 hospitalizations, including around two dozen serious injuries.
Six Brotherhood offices were also ransacked Friday in different governorates. At least one of the offices was torched, while others were broken into and had computers stolen. Ten of the group's buses were torched after protesters suspected Brotherhood members had been ferried to the site of the clashes.
Mexico City ( 18 women rescued from Sex traffickers in Mexico )
18 Women Rescued from Sex Traffickers in Mexico
MEXICO CITY –
Authorities rescued 18 women who were being forced to work as prostitutes in the
southern state of Chiapas, Mexico’s interior ministry said Friday.
Eight people, including two women, were arrested in connection with the forced prostitution scheme and three vehicles were seized.
The trafficking victims, five of them Central American migrants, told authorities they were abducted, held incommunicado and forced to render sexual services.
Once rescued, the 18 women were taken to a shelter where they received medical and psychological attention in accord with the protocol for treatment of sex-trafficking victims, the interior ministry said.
In a separate operation, Chiapas police and the federal INM migration agency detained 41 undocumented migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
The migrants were discovered inside a vehicle during a police stop in Tuxtla Gutierrez, the state capital. EFE
MEXICO CITY –
Authorities rescued 18 women who were being forced to work as prostitutes in the
southern state of Chiapas, Mexico’s interior ministry said Friday.Eight people, including two women, were arrested in connection with the forced prostitution scheme and three vehicles were seized.
The trafficking victims, five of them Central American migrants, told authorities they were abducted, held incommunicado and forced to render sexual services.
Once rescued, the 18 women were taken to a shelter where they received medical and psychological attention in accord with the protocol for treatment of sex-trafficking victims, the interior ministry said.
In a separate operation, Chiapas police and the federal INM migration agency detained 41 undocumented migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
The migrants were discovered inside a vehicle during a police stop in Tuxtla Gutierrez, the state capital. EFE
Mesa Az ( Dogs attacked by killer Bees- One dog dies )
A swarm of bees attacked four dogs at their Mesa home. One of the dogs died and the three others are fighting for life.
It happened in Christiane Giovanetti's backyard near Ellsworth Road and University Drive on Thursday.
"The dogs were just banging on the window and trying to get away," she said. "It is devastating because there is nothing you can do."
Giovanetti's 7-year old lab-mix "Belle" died during the attack. The other dogs were stung hundreds of times each and are being treated. It is too soon to tell if they will survive.
The dogs are being treated by vets at Caring Hearts Animal Clinic in Gilbert. Vets there tell ABC15 that most animals that get stung that many times often do not survive.
The dogs appear to be improving, but it will be several days before they are in the clear.
The stings cause severe allergic reactions that create breathing problems, and swelling and can also cause muscle damage.
Giovanetti was stung about 10 times herself and was helpless watching at the animals suffered.
"You just can't do anything when there are that many," she said.
Giovanetti said less than a half hour before, her children and niece were playing out in the yard. She is just thankful they didn't get hurt.
The hive was found in the chimney of the abandoned house next door.
It is unclear what stirred the hive to spur the attack.
It happened in Christiane Giovanetti's backyard near Ellsworth Road and University Drive on Thursday.
"The dogs were just banging on the window and trying to get away," she said. "It is devastating because there is nothing you can do."
Giovanetti's 7-year old lab-mix "Belle" died during the attack. The other dogs were stung hundreds of times each and are being treated. It is too soon to tell if they will survive.
The dogs are being treated by vets at Caring Hearts Animal Clinic in Gilbert. Vets there tell ABC15 that most animals that get stung that many times often do not survive.
The dogs appear to be improving, but it will be several days before they are in the clear.
The stings cause severe allergic reactions that create breathing problems, and swelling and can also cause muscle damage.
Giovanetti was stung about 10 times herself and was helpless watching at the animals suffered.
"You just can't do anything when there are that many," she said.
Giovanetti said less than a half hour before, her children and niece were playing out in the yard. She is just thankful they didn't get hurt.
The hive was found in the chimney of the abandoned house next door.
It is unclear what stirred the hive to spur the attack.
Read more: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_southeast_valley/mesa/dog-killed-during-bee-attack-in-mesa#ixzz2OOGFZ3fT
Friday, March 22, 2013
American born Traitor ( Alabama bornTerrorist - mocks 5 million bounty on his head )
Jihadist jokes about U.S. bounty: How much for just one leg?
White House Correspondent
American-born Islamist militant Omar Hammami, also known as Abu Mansur al-Amriki (Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP)An Alabama-born jihadist fighter thought to be in Somalia took to Twitter on Friday to mock the U.S. government’s $5 million bounty on his head—jokingly offering to raise some cash for his cause by selling off one leg.
Apparently unbowed, Hammami joked about the bounty on Twitter:
India Rape case ( Police say 35 yr old woman is to old to be raped ) OMG !
"Who would rape a mother of four?" Cop's shocking comment
Edited by Prasad Sanyal | Updated: March 22, 2013 17:59 IST
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Deoria, Uttar Pradesh: A senior police officer in Uttar Pradesh looked at a woman who said she had been raped, and said, "Why would anyone rape such an elderly woman?"
The remark was filmed on Friday by local media in Deoria in Eastern Uttar Pradesh who wanted to expose the difficulty a woman was having in getting the police to register a case of rape.
The police man who insulted the 35-year-old woman, greatly exacerbating the trauma of being raped and chasing policemen for two days to register her case, has been identified as Assistant Superintendent of Police KC Goswami. "Her oldest child is 14, why would anyone rape such an elderly woman?" he asked in front of a crowd.
Her husband said, "She was dragged to the farms, and then she was raped. The police said that rape cannot happen to a 35-year-old." He says that on Wednesday night, she went to a farm and was raped by a villager she recognised. He allegedly strangled her and left her in the fields, assuming she was dead.
Since a medical student was fatally gang-raped on a Delhi bus in December, activists and others have been highlighting the need for police officers to be trained in how to handle women who make complaints of sexual violence. The insensitivity of police men has been acknowledged as a major deterrent for survivors of sexual violence.
The Parliament this week cleared new laws to punish rape and other crimes against women, the result of the cross-country anger that followed December's attack.
The remark was filmed on Friday by local media in Deoria in Eastern Uttar Pradesh who wanted to expose the difficulty a woman was having in getting the police to register a case of rape.
The police man who insulted the 35-year-old woman, greatly exacerbating the trauma of being raped and chasing policemen for two days to register her case, has been identified as Assistant Superintendent of Police KC Goswami. "Her oldest child is 14, why would anyone rape such an elderly woman?" he asked in front of a crowd.
Since a medical student was fatally gang-raped on a Delhi bus in December, activists and others have been highlighting the need for police officers to be trained in how to handle women who make complaints of sexual violence. The insensitivity of police men has been acknowledged as a major deterrent for survivors of sexual violence.
The Parliament this week cleared new laws to punish rape and other crimes against women, the result of the cross-country anger that followed December's attack.
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